Pretty much stopped watching their news at 10. They never report news that goes on outside of the city, as an example, they never reported on the big building fire last week in Port Washington that most of the other stations covered. Also their "transit reporter" Greg Mocker rarely if ever mentions LIRR or Metro North, and failed to even report on the effect of the latest fare hike on those commuters, instead just covering NYC subway riders. And tonight's snow event, Fox 5 had reports in NJ and outside NYC, PIX 11 had barely anything at all. I'm noticing less reporters too (Where's Narmeen or that Chu guy?). Which leads me to believe PIX 11 is laying off staff and cant afford the gas to travel outside of NYC for reports. Going back to Fox 5 for now. Man even WLNY makes PIX look pathetic. I'm just wondering if PIX is violating the conditions of their license for not reporting news in their entire broadcast area.
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PIX 11 News in trouble?
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DToTheJ said:
Jodi Applegate, a "market pro"? That's a candidate for the year's best overstatement, and it's only March.
Jodi's like Lynda Lopez, bouncing around from one station to the next and never staying in one spot long enough to put roots down. That is only a professional criticism of her and not a personal one; I give her props for choosing family over career when she left WPIX a few months back.
What I think you really meant to say is that PIX misses both Jim AND Kaity on weeknights. Heck, I miss them. I would have even tolerated Jim and Jodi, or Jodi and Larry.
islanddxer said:
Since I couldn't add to my previous post, I had to make this one separate...
To answer the question, they are reporting news from their entire broadcast area. WPIX is licensed to New York City. If they pretended as though New Jersey, Long Island, Connecticut, and the upstate New York cities/counties didn't exist in their newscasts it isn't enough to get the license yanked. This castrated and deregulated FCC could care less about those things. This isn't like it was 30 or 40 years ago when the FCC was sweating the NYC and Philly stations to beef up coverage of NJ news because of complaints from Jerseyites. Different media environment today from what it was back then.
On a general note, I too haven't watched WPIX much since the changes. To me, it's 11 minutes of news followed by 49 minutes of assorted features and fluff between 10 and 11. Jodi needed a co-anchor and a desk. "Sports in a New York Minute" is a disgraceful waste. Either do a real sports recap or don't do it at all. Mr. G. looks lost and out of place in a format geared to viewers young enough to be his grandchildren. And, there's way too much Lionel, Larry, Howard and Mocker.
Speaking of Greg Mocker, someone needs to tell him there's other city/state agencies more corrupt than the MTA that deserve scrutiny.
Arthur Chi'en, Mary Murphy, Magee Hickey and Marvin Scott (of course) are the only reporters with real NY street cred left there. None of the new crop of reporters strike me as people I can see hanging around for a while.
And Tamsen Fadal as Jodi's (interim) replacement? It's like trading in the old reliable version for a newer, sexier one -- not a better one.
I don't watch news for eye candy, it's the CONTENT that matters. And PIX News in all dayparts is lacking sorely in the latter.
I can't watch WNYW out of principle, so it's been NY1 and its repeat of Inside (The Road to) City Hall for me at 10:00.
Rollo-Smokes said:
Yeah that's pretty much right, 11 minutes of news followed by fluff. I couldn't stand Jodi Applegate, she had a snotty nonchalant attitude problem, Tamsen is nicer to look at, but she has a similar issue. I much prefer the weekends with Kaity Tong. I'm dissapointed because I thought after the departure of Bill Carey, these mistakes would have been corrected. They need to go back to what worked "from the News Building" with a desk and two anchors. They need to cut the fluff and get back to a more traditional news cast, Lionel is better suited for mornings, his abrasive voice does not belong on evening news. Mendte is out of place for NY, maybe cut his time back. Mocker seems to be a subway rat and never reports on anything other than NYC subways. When he first came on the scene I was a fan, but now it's like a broken record. And for all he bashes the MTA, he never gets involved with the LIRR, and Jersey, forget about it. Seems he's afraid to set foot outside of Manhattan! Problem is the alternatives at 10 aren't great, I really find it hard to watch Fox 5 news now because that Dari Alexander gets on my nerves plus they have alot of fluff too. Fox knows they have it sewn up since there's virtually no competition at 10. So I think I'll just avoid both, CBS puts out a better product on WLNY at 9pm and WCBS at 11pm I think I'll just stick with that until WPIX cans that godwawful batcave presentation.
Back in the early 70's, when I lived in Noo Yawk Sity, my roommate and I used to laugh at all the TV stations (and particularly 7) for their "happy news" format and the fact that according to them the world ended at the Hudson River and there was nothing of interest anywhere to the West.
Sounds like nothing has changed.
Sounds like nothing has changed.
Tribune made the mistake of not creating a WPIX National feed, using WPIX's superstation status and Dish Network and other carriers' interest to keep this offering. While WGN has popularity in middle America, WPIX was popular in the east coast.
Shows that Chicago has like Windy City Live, similarly could have been done at WPIX. Kaity Tong and the some of the popular vets could have hosted these type of shows and they could have been on the national feed, and other reruns that WGN America had could have been shown on WPIX America.
Instead, Tribune just made WPIX's relevance to that of the WB, and worse The CW, not differentiating it from anything other station in the country, thus it hurt the station and locally as well.
Shows that Chicago has like Windy City Live, similarly could have been done at WPIX. Kaity Tong and the some of the popular vets could have hosted these type of shows and they could have been on the national feed, and other reruns that WGN America had could have been shown on WPIX America.
Instead, Tribune just made WPIX's relevance to that of the WB, and worse The CW, not differentiating it from anything other station in the country, thus it hurt the station and locally as well.
ding12 said:
Very good point.
When KTLA and WGN-TV retained their local identities during the WB and CW eras, we got stuck with "WB 11" and "CW 11." There was no logic behind that. I love the PIX 11 brand but it happened about 10 years too late.
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